Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never led at any mark in any race, and the most embarrassing moment of all for the Aussies occurred in the third race when, midway through the opening, windward leg, a 12-ft. Beetle Cat boat piloted by two youths capsized directly in the path of the onrushing Intrepid. Mosbacher had to veer off sharply; in the process, Intrepid caught a blast of air from a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that wrapped her mainsail around the backstay, cost her more than 30 sec. of racing time. She still beat Dame Pattie to the first mark...
...more telling: "The lack a single person feels most acutely is when he leaves his group to go off somewhere on a trip, one of those trips that his single status lets him enjoy. It can occur in front of a castle, on the quiet deck of a boat going up the Rhine, or on any overlook anywhere, looking at a sunset. Faced with such a sight, the natural tendency is to want to turn to someone to say, 'Isn't that beautiful!' and to enjoy it together. And when you turn, there isn't anyone...
Bursting through the clouds, Jumper Robert Coy was astonished to find himself far out over the vast expanse of Lake Erie. "I was flabbergasted. I couldn't see land. Nothing. I could see the other parachutes going into the water." A passing boat rescued Coy and Bernard Johnson; two other chutists delayed their drop in order to jump from a still higher altitude and landed safely on the ground. A five-day search turned up ten bodies including one woman. The other six were presumed drowned...
...cousin the marlin, he rarely wastes effort on grandstanding jumps. He runs and rolls and thrashes about, often entangling himself in the protective wire leader on the end of the line-and snaps the 500-lb.-test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better get out of the way. Nantucket fishermen still talk about the time a broadbill rammed the whaling ship Fortune, ran its bill right through the hull's copper sheathing, a 3-in.-thick hardwood plank...
...covered with blood." At least he doesn't have to live with the experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within 10 ft. of the boat. Leader up! Ready to gaff! At that point, Bramm was so excited that the cigar tumbled from his teeth and-Poing!-burned through the fiddletaut line...